Deseret Evening News | 1909-01-30 | Page 18 | Why the Dramatic Advance Has Not Kept Pace with the Operatic

WRY WilY THE DRAMATIC ADVAnCE HAS NOT KEPT KEIT PACE FACE WITH TILE c Pre tile the Ito don orld W I 1 hear talk about the of imploring our 4 U the public aaka for tor something better bet I 1 always alwy think or of tile the 1 which has tome ome ever music mc le III during III the last 1 16 years Compare aN the tbs opera now wit With the opera of the eorI early nineties Ud Compare the llIe promenade rOnI Was there a pubic 0 demand fW to Wagner Mt of V Verdi sad aM for In to the SeeSaw Waits Walta Not a Wt hll of It There wu was how bow however ever Olver a critical demand and there IY were men 0 one man Hn Henry Wood WoodIn In particular who with It an and who bo had the rOil to be betrue betrue true to themselves They ny ha have learned now that audiences are what w we make malte them If our theater had men of that stamp tit in It Its servile It would not nol be what it I I Is today loday There la is al albo always bo hope however That I is why It I la worth while for tor critics critic to keep up the demand for tor better things OW OwIns Ins to 10 till this demand being kept up upa by bya a few write only A tow rw U the drama dram ha has moved The level of act in I is much higher The Th standard of 01 intelligence In plays ha has gone COile up playwrights are re mixing their Ma with brains sir Ir I Compare The Tbt Builder or of Bridges p for tor In ID Instance stance with S and Sha Shadow dow or The Mollusc with Betsy Bet Bety sy y or David Yc we have havo Improved matt matters in III inthe the last II year theatrically se wen well as mua WIly Why not to tb time same extent TIll The reason chiefly lie lies In our theatrical managers man curt curious and nd of exude disastrous endeavor enor tit to run their t theaters hurl not as t thew leis but All as shops hol